july-1990-pt10 Animage Magazine

This is the last example I have of this Japanese Anime magazine that I will use as an introduction to show you the contents and style through a set of photos of this Magazine titled  “Animage”.

[NOTE: Little did I know at the time that the issues from the 1980's published Hayao Miyazaki's seminal work, the serialized manga of  'Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind', that would then give him the freedom to direct his own Animated feature. Having a working relationship with the Editor of Animage Toshio Suzuki, was also a great help to Hayao Miyazaki.]

Animage Published monthly by Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd. Consisting of 212 pages (including the front & back covers). #7 July 1990 ( Volume 157).

Just look when you get to the contents page (page  25).

March 1990 Pt.3 Animage magazine.

This is the third example of a Japanese Anime magazine that I will use as an introduction to show you the contents and style through a set of photos of this Japanese Anime Magazine “Animage”.

Animage Published monthly by Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd. Consisting of 212 pages (including the front & back covers). #3 March 1990 ( Volume 141).

 Front cover Noa Izumi from Patlalor.

Animage was First Published in July 1978

 Back cover (Future Boy Conan)

[Note: Animage stood out on the shelf next to the other Anime magazines as it had a hard flat spine.]

Contence Page.

 

The contents of this magazine, has not been translate by me. All I really could glean was from the few English words and the recognizable animation stills, and illustrations, and to quote a good friend of mine “We all just looked at the pictures but blimey; What pictures!! “

[Note: Little did I know at the time, that 'Animage' ran the infrequent serialization of the comic-book 'Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind' Written and illustrated by Hayao Miyazaki, one of my all time favourites!]

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Devil man

Moomins

City Hunter

Bits of Artwork...

SD Patlabor!

 

Those Lovely Angels....

Well what do we have hear?!

[Note: Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd being one of the biggest entertainment publishers of their time and that they were Studio Ghibli parent company you do see Manga and novellas printed in Animage also produced as animation.]

Animage serialized the novella “I Can Hear the Sea” by Saeko Himuro as an insert (in a paper size not unlike A5). Most of us Westerners that were Anime & Manga fans did not read Japanese, so we missed out on the details of stories.